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Nature means Necessity.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
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Youth might be wise we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not breaths In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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